Jerry Brown

If you want to sue your landlord, divorce your spouse or fight a traffic ticket this year, you'll probably pay more, travel farther and wait longer. As a result of the latest round of deep cuts to Los Angeles County's court system, court reporters...

SACRAMENTO — Most California voters are willing to take more drastic steps than Gov. Jerry Brown favors to reduce prison crowding, including the early release of nonviolent offenders, but they don't want to sacrifice public safety to reduce the...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Planning a party for thousands of people would be a challenge under the best of circumstances. Now imagine trying to pull off such a gathering without knowing what day it should happen or if there even will be cause for...

Many factors are relevant in determining how much the state should spend to provide a child with an "adequate" public education, but this is not one of them: whether the child lives in an area that was largely agricultural during the early 1970s. Yet...

SACRAMENTO — The budget deal that lawmakers will vote on this week is an effort to mesh financial restraint with a desire to provide more social services and healthcare for the needy — giving the state's economy extra time to recover before...

SACRAMENTO -- Reaching a deal on the state budget required juggling various numbers on spending, tax revenue and debt repayments to make everything fit. Democratic lawmakers agreed to use Gov. Jerry Brown's more conservative estimates on state income...

Please. Let’s stop focusing on the overpaid, tormented young man who last week revealed the National Security Administration’s Power Point Plan for Total Electronic World Domination. Let’s focus instead on what our nation’s...

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders made it official on Tuesday afternoon: They have a budget deal.  Brown held a press conference with Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles)...

Gov. Jerry Brown will talk about the budget deal he has reached with Democratic legislative leaders at a news conference Tuesday afternoon in the state Capitol. Details of the plan began to emerge on Monday. They include major victories for the governor...

SACRAMENTO -- Democrats in Sacramento are celebrating their new budget accord as a fiscally austere plan for a state in the midst of a gradual economic recovery. Although the deal between Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders in the Legislature...

SACRAMENTO -- California's largest union of state workers, SEIU Local 1000, said it has reached a tentative agreement with officials of Gov. Jerry Brown's administration to award "across-the-board" pay raises to its members. The raises, which were...

California's chief justice said she was "encouraged" that the budget deal worked out between Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature would end a pattern of funding cuts for courts and restore at least some money lost previously. Chief Justice Tani Cantil-...